The text below, kindly provided by Jon E. Noring, is taken verbatim out
of electronic book version of the Kama Sutra of
Vatsyayana, published by OmniMedia Digital
Publishing, wherein the full version of the Kama
Sutra can be found.

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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ("Kama Sutra"
is Sanskrit for "Aphorisms of Love") is an extraordinary and fascinating
work that deserves careful reading and study. Written in ancient India,
it is essentially a technical guide, a scholarly treatise if you will,
to sexual enjoyment and other sensual pleasures. It also contains profound
historical and anthropological insights into the mores and customs of ancient
India. The modern reader will often be surprised by how markedly different
the cultural paradigms presented in the Kama Sutra
are from those of today.

Almost nothing is known about the writer, Vatsyayana, or the exact date he wrote
this work. Regarding the date, Sir Richard F. Burton (whose 1883 translation
is used partially in this site—more on this below) determined from internal
evidence that the Kama Sutra was written
sometime between the first and sixth centuries A.D. Many scholars now
believe the Kama Sutra was written
during, or shortly before, the Gupta period (320-540 A.D.), which has
also been called the Classical Age of India.
Regarding the writer Vatsyayana, Burton makes the following insightful remarks:

"...He [Vatsyayana] states that he wrote the work while leading the
life of a religious student (probably at Benares) and while wholly engaged
in the contemplation of the Deity. He must have arrived at a certain age
at that time, for throughout he gives us the benefit of his experience, and
of his opinions, and these bear the stamp of age rather than of youth;
indeed the work could hardly have been written by a young man."

One comment should be made about the so-called "Kama Sutra" now
available at various sites on the Internet. That text document, the so-called
"sexual positions list" is only a very small snippet of the entire work
(a portion of one chapter out of a total of 35 chapters plus a Salutation.)
It is also not from the Burton translation. The interested reader is
encouraged to locate the Internet version and compare it to our texts
and original books you can order directly from
this site.

Although legal considerations compel us to state that this site is
For Adults Only (because Vatsyayana
deals with the subject matter of human sexuality in a frank and
forthright manner), it is a shame that this restriction must be applied
since this site is clearly non-prurient in nature (except of
HARDCORE section). The whole scholarly
(and some would say, practical) character of the Kama Sutra is nothing like most works
of erotica written today—some would even assert that the
Kama Sutra is wholly appropriate
even for older teens to read because of its historical and anthropological
insights into our own culture and to human sexuality in general.
Of course, our society is a lot different from ancient Indian society.
Thus, many of the subjects and cultural practices Vatsyayana discusses
are very alien, and even bizarre, to our frame of reference. But that
is what makes the Kama Sutra so
fascinating—something written almost two millennia ago, in a culture far
removed us, tells us today that there is more than one way for a society
to regulate human sexual practice and conduct. The obvious implication
for us today is that we need to be very careful when we promote certain
societal paradigms regarding human sexuality as somehow being fixed,
absolute and timeless. They clearly are not.